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We model long-term variations in the scintillation of binary pulsar PSR J1603$-$7202, observed by the 64 m Parkes radio telescope (Murriyang) between 2004 and 2016. We find that the time variation in the scintillation arc curvature is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Kris Walker , Daniel J. Reardon , Eric Thrane , Rory Smith

In this work we study variations in the parabolic scintillation arcs of the binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1643-1224 over five years using the Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP). The 2D power spectrum of scintillation, called the…

We have observed the relativistic binary pulsar PSR J1141$-$6545 over a period of $\sim$6 years using the Parkes 64 m radio telescope, with a focus on modelling the diffractive intensity scintillations to improve the accuracy of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 D. J. Reardon , W. A. Coles , G. Hobbs , S. Ord , M. Kerr , M. Bailes , N. D. R. Bhat , V. Venkatraman Krishnan

We studied the turbulence spectrum of the local interstellar plasma in the direction of PSR J0437-4715, on the basis of our observations and those reported earlier by others. We combine these data to form a structure function for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. V. Smirnova , C. R. Gwinn , V. I. Shishov

The interstellar scintillation observed in radio pulsars arises from interference between electromagnetic waves scattered by electron density fluctuations in the turbulent interstellar plasma, providing a critical tool for probing the…

Pulsar scintillation observations have revealed ubiquitous discrete scintillation screens in the interstellar medium. A major obstacle in identifying the nature of these screens is the uncertainty in their distances, which prevents precise…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-26 Yuanshang Huang , Xun Shi , Jumei Yao , Weiwei Zhu , Yonghua Xu

Long-term studies of binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) provide precise tests of strong-field gravity and can be used to measure neutron-star masses. PSR~J1909$-$3744, a binary MSP has been the subject of several pulsar timing analyses. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 Jacob Askew , Daniel Reardon , Ryan Shannon

Observations of pulsar scintillation are among the few astrophysical probes of very small-scale ($\lesssim$ au) phenomena in the interstellar medium (ISM). In particular, characterization of scintillation arcs, including their curvature and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 S. K. Ocker , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee , D. R. Stinebring , T. Dolch , V. Pelgrims , J. W. McKee , C. Giannakopoulos , D. J. Reardon

The interstellar medium hosts a population of scattering screens, most of unknown origin. Scintillation studies of pulsars provides a sensitive tool for resolving these scattering screens and a means of measuring their properties. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 James W. McKee , Hengrui Zhu , Daniel R. Stinebring , James M. Cordes

We present the first large sample of scintillation arcs in millisecond pulsars, analysing 12 sources observed with the Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP), and the Effelsberg 100\,m telescope. We estimate the delays from multipath…

Using data from the Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP), and the Effelsberg telescope, we study the scintillation parameters of the millisecond pulsar J0613-0200 over a 7 year timespan. The "secondary spectrum" -- the 2D power spectrum…

Scintillation arcs have become a powerful tool for exploring scattering in the ionized interstellar medium. There is accumulating evidence that the scattering from many pulsars is extremely anisotropic resulting in highly elongated, linear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-11 Dan R. Stinebring , Barney J. Rickett , Stella Koch Ocker

We present the detection of 107 pulsars with interstellar scintillation arcs at 856--1712\,MHz, observed with the MeerKAT Thousand Pulsar Array Programme. Scintillation arcs appear to be ubiquitous in clean, high S/N observations, their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-17 R. A. Main , A. Parthasarathy , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , A. Basu , A. D. Cameron , M. J. Keith , L. S. Oswald , B. Posselt , D. J. Reardon , X. Song , P. Weltevrede

Annual variations of interstellar scintillation can be modelled to constrain parameters of the ionized interstellar medium. If a pulsar is in a binary system, then investigating the orbital parameters is possible through analysis of the…

We use the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope to measure scintillation arc properties in six bright canonical pulsars with simultaneous dual frequency coverage. These observations at frequencies from 300 to 750 MHz allowed for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-27 Jacob E. Turner , Bhal Chandra Joshi , Maura A. McLaughlin , Daniel R. Stinebring

We report on findings from scintillation analyses using high-cadence observations of eight canonical pulsars with observing baselines ranging from one to three years. We obtain scintillation bandwidth and timescale measurements for all…

We present 154 MHz Murchison Widefield Array imaging observations and variability information for a sample of pulsars. Over the declination range $-80^{\circ} < {\delta} < 10^{\circ}$ we detect 17 known pulsars with mean flux density…

Low-frequency observations of pulsars provide a powerful means for probing the microstructure in the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM). Here we report on high-resolution dynamic spectral analysis of our observations of the timing-array…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 N. D. R. Bhat , S. M. Ord , S. E. Tremblay , S. J. McSweeney , S. J. Tingay

In this paper, we report our investigation of pulsar scintillation phenomena by monitoring PSR B0355$+$54 at 2.25 GHz for three successive months using \emph{Kunming 40-m radio telescope}. We have measured the dynamic spectrum, the…

Context. The spatially coherent multipath propagation of pulsar radiation leads to a temporal and spectral interference patterns called scintillation. It is caused by density variations in the ionized interstellar medium, which often take…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-15 Tim Sprenger , Xun Shi , Olaf Wucknitz , Robert A. Main
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